skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rolls eyes

The point is that if you've got such tiny quantities of data, why are you storing it in a distributed manner, and why are you breaking out the 777 for a trip around the racetrack? Grab the 777 when you need it, and take the Tesla when you need the performance characteristics of a Tesla.
I've responded to similar sentiments in another comment within this thread, but just to note you misquoted me. I am not sure if that was intentional or not.
A different approach, if you wanted to do something more accurate (this is also a reasonable choice in my opinion, given that you have a fixed number of sites you're looking at) would be to use a headless browser like PhantomJS and traverse the rendered DOM checking the computed style with `window.getComputedStyle(el)`.
I'm not convinced that cyclic data structures are a feature that's exotic enough to warrant breaking the language contracts. This thread alone shows that it's a common occurrence in tree structures. There will be likely be other structures as well.

So I'd think a better way than saying "don't do that - or if you have to, you're on your own" would be to analyze use cases and see which scenarios the language can satisfy. (As another poster suggested in making "parent pointers" an explicit language feature(
Then we're veering off the "multiple coincidences" hypothesis, to a much more probable theory.
Engineers like to define best practices all the time. Often times this is informally, sometimes it's through organized groups like IEEE.
That sounds like ##c.
Iterate over the personal information of 5000 citizens using a for loop and violate their rights by calling the violateHumanRights() function which takes a single parameter which is the personal identification number attribute of the citizen.
Oxygen-breathing beings are not supposed to be in a room being filled with Halon
I forget where I read it but I thought that the visible spectrum likely developed because it can penetrate water and that was where the first life began. Any later development of depth perception would seemingly be a tangential thing and not implicit to the wavelengths used by our eyes. Don't blue and green wavelengths pass through water rather well?
I don't have faith in technology.

Technology exist I can see it, I can test it it's not metaphysical any more than the emerging complexity of biological life lead to us.

A very very different thing.
"Means testing is how you would LOSE political support" => yes you're right. And this is the reason why those (the Republican Party for instance) who are opposed to social policy out of principle invest a lot in transforming universal benefits into means-tested benefits.

We saw that happen in many cases in the recent period of austerity, because scarcity of resources is a powerful argument to convince the rich, then the middle class, to renounce their benefits in favor of the poor.

As for "there has not been UBI" I disagree. Many supporters provide examples such as the Alaska dividend. There are many lessons to be drawn from many social policies in developed countries.

In France alone we had two BI-like programs which, for various reasons, underwent slow financial and political destruction:
- the RMI/RSA, about which I wrote in the article
- less known is the "régime des intermittents du spectacle", which works like a universal unemployment insurance for freelancers in the entertainment industry (and it costs so much money to the taxpayer that governments regularly try to kill it). It only survives because the entertainment industry is a powerful lobby in France.
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Thanks for the info. I'll look into them.

I don't think my price point is that unrealistic. Who would have thought you would be able to buy a powerful handheld computer for less than $100? Yet we can.

I get your point but it sure would be nice to have a cheap service.
Ah many thanks, biology is outside of my area of expertise.
Thx, will do.
It does seem too obvious, and the comment seems to be pointing somewhere else like you say.

What do you mean about the compressed size?

There are no hidden chunks in the file, and the image data chunk when inflated is 60147 bytes, vs 1270 compressed.
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Lamda calculus cannot be called universal because it would be too limiting
Nice intro to making writing in latex easier. Some other good stuff about latex on this blog too.
Now we can produce them for cheap...

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/06/markus-kayser-builds-a...
I'm not sure I really propose anything, it's a hard problem. Maybe a more decentralized web-of-trust like identity system would be a good long-term goal?

As for authenticating orders to your bank: You should be able to use any compatible product/software you like to sign orders to your bank with your private key. The bank should not have the ability to fake orders to themselves (see also the Wells-Fargo fiasco).
Good job man, this is a really awesome game.
I'll try this. Sounds like an interesting project. thx!
What is a Closure? (Golang)
Ex MSFT Researcher here. It's fun to work at MSR. Not everything done there is valuable, but it is very diverse and you are given pretty much Carte Blanche to fuck around with whatever you want. Just come up with some stuff now and again.

Certainly not a bunch of evil people that's for sure.
The corollary to this: if an algorithm uses AI or machine learning to the extent that nobody precisely understands why it makes the decisions it does, it will be very difficult to change its behavior in specific cases, e.g. "make it stop doing that," especially when the inputs cannot be changed.

This is going to come up at some point when a self-driving car does something that appears totally irrational and ends up causing an accident. Engineers will need to come up with some kind of explanation, and I suspect the general public will not be satisfied when they learn that the explanation may be unknowable, or may reduce only to probability instead of certainty.

I deal with some of this at work in far more trivial use cases, and non-engineers just can't seem to accept that sometimes you cannot fix the imperfections without introducing worse imperfections in other areas of the system, and that ML generally leads to output that is "good enough" instead of perfect.
There is clear and conclusive evidence that black people commit violent crime at a higher rate than white people in the United States [1]. Arguments that arrests are not representative of true crime are not based in sound statistical arguments, for crimes such as murder, there is no plausible argument that police are 6 times as likely to arrest a black criminal for murder than a white criminal. If anything police would investigate murders of white people more seriously as shown by the rate of unsolved murders by state [2], but the magnitude of this effect isn't enough to explain the discrepancy even if you assume that all unsolved murders are committed by white people, as only about 33% of murders go unsolved on average.

Given that crime is strongly correlated with poverty, and being black is also strongly correlated with poverty in the United States, it would be very surprising if black people did not commit more crime.

[1] http://www.amren.com/archives/reports/the-color-of-crime-201...
[2] http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2013/01/rates-of-unsolved-murd...
Shall read up. Thank you!! :)
> 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.

In principle it may be possible, but in practice it's vaporware at best. There's no standard, established way to do this, which means there's no way that other people could maintain - the closest is probably autoconf, but I never saw anyone ship an aclocal.m4 with their shell script. Since unix utilities tend to be installed system-wide, it's not really practical to develop or test (not that the unix platform is at all test-friendly to start with) against old target versions (docker may eventually get there, but it's currently immature) - if your development machine has version 2.6 of some utility, you'll probably end up accidentally using 2.6-only features without noticing.

> 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.

My organization isn't primarily-unix, and people don't use awk often enough to learn it. I'm sure one could pick up the basics fairly quickly, but that's true of Spark too.
I am talking about the omnipotent/omniscient intelligent designer.
I actually emailed the author about this. He is in the process of revising the site for C. It will be available for free, or so he told me.
Phenomenal read. It is the kind of book that I will read again several times.
That sounds like a good idea on paper, but I think rotating or animating content (especially advertising banners) would heavily complicate that strategy.
I put nothing down and pay $147/month to lease a Volkswagen e-Golf. Looks and feels just like a regular Golf, but zippier.
Yes, thx for pointing it out. I had forgotten about it.

All I can say is, "BRING IT BACK!" :)
Would you rather have a biased human attempt to make data-driven, statistically based, decisions, or a biased human make decisions based on whatever they feel like? Either way there will be bias in the system. You don't have to be faster than the bear, you just have to faster than your friend.
If I were to ever buy a Tesla, could I turn off data collection?

If not... that would turn off a lot of privacy-conscious people, which Tesla doesn't tend to attract at its current prices but may become relevant as they come out with cheaper cars.
I ran `convert -compress None puzzle.png` and the output was ~800 bytes. Clearly that's optimizing the image too, but basically the image seems wastefully large, and that makes me suspicious there's something going on there.
The public doesn't know anything. iPhone hit the market and I saw the public debate whether or not it was going to do well without a keyboard. Mention voice commands to them and they'd just give you this dumb look.

Just as it was then, so is it now. These people don't get it. But they'll get on board because:

1. EV are cheaper per km in fuel.
2. EV are cheapre per km in maintenance.
3. EV are faster.
4. EV are safer.
5. EV are better for the environment.

There are only three things that EV are not:

1. Better range.
2. Fast refueling, but this matters less with better range.
3. Cheaper sticker price.

But when two of those three things move over to the other list, it's game over. 100% of people will buy / rent EV. They'll tax roads with cellphone tracking or built right into the car.
It's on the full list[0].

Beej's Guide to C: http://beej.us/guide/bgc/output/html/singlepage/bgc.html
Full of mistakes.

[0]: http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Main_Page#Stuff_that_should_be...
That's a good idea. That would be a much more accurate way to see which colors were actually used. A few other people in the comments also mentioned Selenium. I'll have to do some research.

Stayed tuned for version 2.0!
I did, he held fast to his belief that we hadn't contributed enough to be co–founders nor to get the equity stakes he’d promised when he recruited us. He never raised the money he kept claiming to be raising, and never replaced us with a new team. The startup (if you can call it that) died pretty much when the founder decided to screw the rest of us.
Have you seen the latest Civic? It's far less conventional looking than past generations. Electric car styling must reflect a desire from the target audience of small city cars, otherwise there wouldn't be a trend towards this aesthetic.
> But I don't want to pay too much of a premium for an electric car, and I don't want it to look "weird". Just make your normal cars electric.

Surely that's the Leaf?
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This reminds me of the article 'Why Every Movie Looks Sort of Orange and Blue' [1]. Even though the reasons behind movies and websites looking similar are different, it's interesting that both are heavy on blue and reddish-orange.

[1] https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orang...
For what it's worth, most startup technology is not overly burdened or fettered with best practices. :)
Late followup…in addition to Edgar/SEC I'd look at Mattermark, Crunchbase and Angelist. Meant to mention them earlier.
For C++, there is a book called Accelerated C++ by Koenig and Moo. It was very enjoyable to work through it.
"There's simply no way to tell the compiler to not drop a variable automatically when it goes out of scope."

Perhaps std::mem::forget
We have been using it (0.4.1) since it came out, and really cannot say enough good things about it. We were able to cut down our socket server nodes by ~ 50%, and it is way more stable (both server wise and connection wise). Combined with AWS, it really has made life extremely easy.
I agree - I didn't chunk the pieces of the ideology itself very well. It's a dissonant mix and I can't always parse it well.

Iran is a... bicameral society with, as you say, a high degree of sophistication coeexisting with fundamentalism. As the sting of 1953 fades, I can't help but think we'll eventually achieve normal relations with them. I don't, for example, see as much screaming about the Obama Administrations attempts to thaw things out by the Rightist press as I used to. It's not a stretch for present-day Americans to denounce Dulles-brothers style adventurism.

This being said, I think of ISIS itself as an international attractor for disaffected youth, with an apparently explicit emphasis on martyrdom.

And yes - I expect we'll keep a very close watch on Pakistan. I just meant that if Pakistan were to fall, it wouldn't be a huge military effort to ... secure it. It would be a big logistical effort but I think of Gulf War I as the model. Of course, then we'd stiffen the resolve of those who oppose Westerners being there at all. I am also sure that we'd try to use the fig leaf of the U.N.
The funniest part is that the C in K&R is not really much different, let alone better, than in any of the books they recommend against. I guarantee K&R would be on their list of books to avoid if it wasn't written by… well, K&R.

I've used & contributed to Daniel's stuff (mostly mpc¹) and his code is (IMO) quite high quality. ##c is a bit deluded.

¹ https://github.com/orangeduck/mpc
Side note -- we use it under the node interface w/ SocketIO
Around $50 USD in Amazon, like today. I just thought it was too much for the quantity of pages. But really, few programming books are as good as K&R. I still think the editorial is particularly greedy when it comes to this book. Still I don't recommend any C book, other than K&R.
Because it's evidence that you're trying to take on more debt.

Inquiries only affect your credit when they're from someone whom you've authorized to pull your credit as a potential creditor: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/finance/credit-report-soft-h...
I went and checked - the book I first learned from, "Using C" by Clint Hicks, didn't introduce pointers until page 232. Not quite 300+, but not too far off either.
Mr. Stucchio:

Mass democracy is the root of this problem. One proof is observing the way in which democratic decision-making has devolved chiefly into emotional appeals to in-group moralistic bromides. To me, the degree to which one seriously desires rational thinking as a basis for lawmaking is the degree to which one desires a reduction in the number of cooks in the kitchen.
> I think the use of crime modeling doesn't have to be controversial

Outside of a 50's-style sci-fi utopia, I simply can't see how. What we consider a crime worth pursuing is, alone, a hugely difficult conversation.
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A friend of mine does this when he needs a new car:

He goes to 3 dealerships in this vicinity, tells them exactly what car he wants to buy with the exact extras, asks them for their best price, and let's each know he's going to two other dealerships. Then he leaves his phone number and walks out.

Has worked the few times he did it so far.
100% agreed. Webpack 2 is going to be a fairly sizable change, but for the better. I've been following the webpack meeting notes, pretty excited to see where it's all headed.
Source at https://github.com/jnaulty/metermaid-monitor

Coming soon, no doubt, a similar tool for residents
to track vehicles parked long past their time limit and
alert parking enforcement to a ticketing opportunity.
"that is that the US is a country of immigration and so you had to find a way to allow foreign people without any history and no reason to trust them."

Remember our banking system in U.S. pays politicians to create laws that benefit them. It's actually not much a stretch to even claim they own the country between ex-bankers doing the regulations, bankers paying off politicians, bankers getting bailouts, the Fed, and bankers obviously controlling financial backbone of economy. So, I always consider whether this could have impacted a law, standard practice, or whatever.

Well, one thing they like is you buying stuff with their money and paying interest. It's basically how they all make money outside things like fees and services. Guess what our "backwards" credit system forces us to do. You were absolutely correct if you guessed "guarantee billions in profits for bankers." I'm not sure if they created the original model but it should be on list of possibilities to consider given they pull lots of stuff like this.

Another example they probably paid politicians for is how they do tax write-offs on charged-off loans they're not going to collect. The reasonable parts are them not paying taxes on loans they can't collect and borrower paying taxes on amount they borrowed because it's effectively income. The sneaky modification they also write off the interest and fees they charged on top while borrower pays taxes on those as if they were income. Interest and fees certainly aren't income. This scheme works great for banks and IRS but not consumers.
Slightly off topic, but are the software updates optional or mandatory in Tesla cars? As I do with phones, I hold off on updates until I know it's stable and has no major bugs. Serious bugs in a car software could be fatal.
It's true no one cares for the most part. But clients do want maintainability, so a more mainstream language makes your skill-set more attractive. Of course I speak as a freelancer, not from a product perspective.

I picked Python, because:

1. I thought I would give up if the language was too hard.

2. I didn't know what I want to build eventually, and Python seemed to be used everywhere.

Getting into the mindset of spotting problems, defining it's scope and writing code to solve that SPECIFIC scope has been highly useful. It's also something to continually improve at. Good places to start are complaints from friends/family about commonly used software.
Most people don't own a Tesla anyway. It's a little harder to avoid being tracked by Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.
This looks similar to:

https://geopeeker.com/

I did a quick price/feature comparison and it appears to be a toss-up depending on what you need. Any thoughts on how you plan to distinguish yourself from this other service? Selecting your location is definitely a cool idea- good work!
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Thanks for sharing! That was really interesting.

It kind of makes sense, at least for movies. Complementary color schemes with contrasting colors connect with humans on an intrinsic level. Since the sky is already blue and humans are slightly orange. (at least caucasians, who tend to be over-represented in Hollywood)

If blue and orange are already present in most scenes I understand the impulse to up that contrast.
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Interesting list. Not worked much on C recently (though I am some on D these days), but had used it a lot earlier. I first started with K&R (not because I knew it was good or the best then - IMO, maybe some will not agree, and it may not be the best for a beginner), but because it was the only one available at that time and place, IIRC. Later I did read some other C books. I think the Kochan (Steven?) one you mention was one of them, and maybe also the Prata book. IIRC, the Kochan one was good. One book I read had an example of creating an index or concordance of a text file or program, maybe it was Kochan. Remember enjoying the logic.
Does the lessor use magic to change how much it costs them to own the battery?

Without multiple parties competing to issue the battery leases, my suspicion is that the primary benefit is to the manufacturer in the form of higher prices than an insurance or warranty model for the finances.
It's quite strange to view how ... flexible the requirements-level changes are. As someone steeped in safety and human life critical software development, this seems very odd.

This is especially true of "Interface alerts are much more prominent, including flashing white border on instrument panel." This has been a huge thing in aviation automation for like ... forever.
> You should be able to use any compatible product/software you like to sign orders to your bank with your private key.

If a .gov smartcards are a pipe dream, this is a pipedream^10. Private companies will throw a fit if they can't lock people in.
I understand that some of the inputs don't affect the behavior and so don't connect to anything, but why do some of the synapses not connect to anything? In particular, what is the meaning of the two nodes above and below the outputs. They are on long chains that appear meaningless. Why did the network grow there; is it just evolutionary noise?
Reads like advertisement/PR-placement.
SHARC chips don't have any integer types smaller than 32-bits. 56k chips have 24-bit chars. Not so common any more, but they are still kind of kicking around.

Well, those chips are DSPs, which is kind of a different horse.

Why would they, when they can't address any smaller than 32-bits?

How, for instance, would you write a TCP/IP stack, if you can't do something like this?

struct tcp_hdr {
PACK_STRUCT_FIELD(u16_t src);
PACK_STRUCT_FIELD(u16_t dest);
PACK_STRUCT_FIELD(u32_t seqno);
PACK_STRUCT_FIELD(u32_t ackno);
PACK_STRUCT_FIELD(u16_t _hdrlen_rsvd_flags);
PACK_STRUCT_FIELD(u16_t wnd);
PACK_STRUCT_FIELD(u16_t chksum);
PACK_STRUCT_FIELD(u16_t urgp);
} PACK_STRUCT_STRUCT;

There are a couple of right answers and a wrong answer. The wrong answer is, "You can't."

The right answer is, "Go ahead and declare the 8-bit or 16-bit integer. The compiler will do the necessary shifting and masking to simulate unaligned reads and writes, including those that straddle two word boundaries."

Another right answer might be, "You wouldn't," in the case of a dedicated DSP chip.

What I'm saying is that I've never seen a general-purpose platform where that wasn't supported. It might not be fast, of course, but embedded work is often more about interoperability than speed. (DSP being an obvious exception; I'm lucky enough not to have had to work with any old-school DSP coprocessors.)
The main problem for most post-Soviet production has long been that the supply chain now includes 2+ countries. Antonov is a prime example - had AN-124 and AN-225 been "Ukrainian" planes, we would have seen more production and commercializations.

The problem is that these are Soviet planes and with the current Russian-Ukrainian relations in shambles, the production has stopped. Much of avionics and those turbofans are (were?) made in Russia: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/ukraines-antonov-will-weste...

In my view, this is just thrashing in a frantic bid to keep the company alive. Sad, given its storied past.
Just curious as the name is familiar - do you go to Georgia Tech?