skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cameras do catch some speeders, but the areas with cameras is very marked out and visible by the drivers.
In general I'm flabbergasted as to why countries don't just look at what has been tried in other trailblazing countries with issues like this. In the case of cycling, the Netherlands and Denmark are so far ahead of the rest of the world that catching up should be a matter of asking us about everything that we've tried, about did (not) work and why, and then stealing the good ideas.
> I'm very curious what IBM comes up with, not sure yet why they're so interested in it other than LLVM.

They are diversifying outside Java as their bet on enterprise languages.

J9 (their JVM) has been modularized and became the basis of Eclipse OMR, an infrastructure to implement programming languages, with existing support for PHP, Python and Ruby.

Swift is yet another card in the deck.
I suspect Sokal-eque hoaxes could get published one-by-one in every single postmodern journal and each would be deemed "not a major journal" in rotation.

Postmodernism is some kind of academic alternate reality that exists only in journals, so discrediting one is kind of a big deal.

The difference is that computer science is grounded in the real world. Every CS conference could fold, every journal could be disgraced, and yet Google would still answer my search queries. Therefore, I'm pretty sure 01+01=10. This unarguable power of reality is why empiricism won.
I think you meant WinX: https://www.wired.com/2005/02/microsoft-5/
First, it matters a lot how you define "an $80k / year job". If you are talking about the gross payroll, taxes and benefits (PT&B) cost to the employer, it's a lot different than $80k "net take-home". I mean the former. Call that $50k take-home.

Second, it matters if you are an adult disabled with a family being paid children benefits. Children and spousal benefits can boost total SSDI income up to 80%.

Third, it matters how sick you are. Employee health plans will often have large deductibles and even higher annual out-of-pocket maximums. Medicaid has neither. The poor man insurance could save you over $20k per year.

Fourth, it matters how handy you are and therefore how much you can make of that extra 50 hours per week you get by being on SSDI. If you can repair your house, repair your car, cook all your own meals, and never have to hire a contractor for anything, that can save a LOT of money. Maybe on SSDI you don't need a car at all. Maybe on SSDI you never have to call the car mechanic, the plumber, the handyman, or the housecleaner, etc. Most particularly, maybe on SSDI you don't have to pay for childcare. The direct, indirect, and opportunity costs of working could easily exceed $20k.

In review, let's say your $50k take home job results in $10k increase in healthcare costs, and also a $10k increase in other total household expenses; increased auto expense, food cost, restaurant bills, mechanics, handymen, and most of all, childcare. So you are working your ass off for $30k of income, where-as staying at home with SSDI would have paid you and your children $30k per year.
I am not politically oriented, but I was a homemaker and full time mom for a long time. To my mind, child bearing, child rearing and "women's work" generally are not readily and easily separable. I believe it makes more sense to treat women as, in a sense, handicapped (in the way that word gets used in horse racing: carrying extra weight) and help them carry that load. This has a better track record of getting more paritable outcomes than the American approach to this problem space.

I am interested in culture, not politics per se. But political policy grows out of culture. So if American culture changes in this regard, policy changes are likely to follow. But I do not have a political agenda per se.
“Our analysis was showing something, but our beliefs were different,” says Vishal Mishra, CEO of Right Relevance, which sells a research platform focused on influence. “We thought, how is Trump going to win? But our analysis kept showing us.”

He doesn't say "predict". But it is very clearly implied.
I have a close friend who is doing a postdoc in these areas. I've reviewed a lot of text and talked a lot about the concepts.

The language may sometimes use long and obscure words, but it is for a reason, and it it precision. The thoughts and philosophical underpinnings are very nuanced and precise.

Synonyms exist in most languages, and english has a lot of them, and their only motivation is to express nuances.
I bought one and have been using it just fine. Just depends on who you buy it from (e.g. is the guy a student? a CEO? a homeless guy?). If you know their true identity then they'd have to be really stupid to have done something nasty to it and sold it to you... and if you know who they are, all you have to do is ask how they obtained it.
I think you misread that. It is not about blaming the driver, in the sense that we all know driver will continue to drive poorly. So if we want change, we can't just blame the bad drivers and go on designing cars and roads the same way. Instead we need to design the roads, knowing that bad drivers will be using them.

We in Sweden have some of the worlds highest standards for drivers tests. You could blame bad drivers and raise the standards even more. But you know what? Some people will drive without even having a license. You can't stop people like that unless you ban cars altogether.
I disagree. Why can we not just get really really good at measuring the universe and describe everything from there? If you agree with physics as a decent approximation of the universe, everything else is collective/emergent (though statistical, sure) behaviour; so there is no 'natural line' of impossibility at any level. In fact, I'd argue it's the opposite, but maybe I'm misguided and highly biased (as a physicist).

I guess my question is: what's your reasoning behind the statement that such a line exists?
Yeah, I just don't know how to do that. I recently moved to a small city in South Carolina, and only get out at night to go to my job lol.
Guy Steele and his group had a really interesting thing going with the language Fortress (name is a nod to Fortran of course, but fortified). It was meant for high productivity as well as high speed (petaflops range). It got shelved after Oracle bought Sun. It was one of the three languages seeded by DARPA funding for high productivity computing

https://java.net/projects/projectfortress/pages/Home

https://blogs.oracle.com/projectfortress/entry/fortress_wrap...
Wrote this a while back but didn't get much feedback - might be helpful if you know more Javascript than Scheme.

https://medium.com/@tanjent/refactoring-out-a-y-combinator-9...
This data analysis is cheating. You can't provide an earnest data visualization and obfuscate the data (the corresponding YC companies) at the same time, as it makes it impossible to validate. True, VCs can't disclose the metrics revealed in a Demo Day, which makes the existence of this article problematic.

Additionally:

> If we annualized revenue for each company on the twelfth month after demo day, then annualized revenue per company would vary from $1 million to $159 billion.

What the hell?
A great deal of that is for post-processing, however. Very little python used in the compute heavy pieces of scientific computation.
I agree that phone numbers feel archaic & stupid. I also think they are stupid identifiers for services other than telephone networks (say .. IM).
I completely agree. Part of the problem I suppose is that the seasons are much more pronounced in Stockholm than in (say) Amsterdam, so the number of cyclists biking to work at rush hour tomorrow is vastly lower than the number you'll see a Monday morning in summer. That leads to poor utilization of the infrastructure in winter, should more of the (already limited) space be dedicated to cyclists. For cycling to be really viable I'd like to see cross town bike roads not just dedicated lanes on regular roads. A few streets have been shut down for road traffic already but I hope more will come.
There is also Lightspark:

https://lightspark.github.io/
Honestly you'll probably be best served reading the border agency's website and consulting with an immigration solicitor.

Immigration law in the UK changes every year. What was true for someone else may not be true for you. Never mind that your extact immigration circumstances will most likely not be the same as anyone elses.
I like Swift, because it will make everyone that cares about Mac/iOS/tvOS/watchOS aware of ML like programming languages and FP concepts.

Outside Apple ecosystems, Haskell, OCaml, F#, Rust are much better options in terms of tooling, libraries and multiple OSes support.
Oh FFS.

To stay on point it's a matter of ignorance not nativity. The article is crap not because it is Indian, which is irrelevant, but because the domain is a minimal effort blog that has no place on HN.
I was born in the 70s and when I was a young computer enthusiast my reading experience is similar: there was a glory era of hacking and experimentation and lisp machines and fun but now it was over and we had to live in this era of professionalism and msdos and you couldn't phreak a phone anymore.

Then I got to college and discovered the internet just as the web was getting started and I started to realize that even though that old era was gone forever, here's a thing that's new and exciting and at least as world-changing.

I still see that 'wow those old timey hackers were really something, and we'll never have the like again' mindset floating around the internet, even here on HN. (For example, people talking about how great lisp machines were or how great smalltalk environments were and how it's such a tragedy that we'll never see their like again).
If the laws were even slightly focused on harm reduction instead of stocking private prisons then maybe they wouldn't be ridiculous. And obviously the blackmailer, turning someone in for something that isn't an actual harm to society, is more of a harm than the "criminal" is.

Your whole argument is "law enforcement is good", with as much proof as you'd supply for the existence of Santa. That's a stupidly naive view to have. Yes, kidnapping is bad and stopping kidnappers is good. But very little of what law enforcement does is in our best interests, as individuals or as a society.

Clearly the rightness of evading law enforcement and shooting blackmailers depends on the rightness of the law the enforcers are enforcing. With bad law backing them up...
Kind of like James Simons: analyst makes sound recommendation, recommendation is ignored by inbred leaders, calamity ensues, analyst gives up on public service.

Perhaps there's a place for this Nixon guy in the hedge fund world?
During that time, the currency was still the Cruzeiro Real, not the USD. The URV was never the currency.
I agree. The explosion of new ideas is also an explosion of learning curves.

I suppose that's fine for people who just want to learn something new every day. I want to make stuff, and the less maintenance it needs the better. Most of what's on the hype train isn't too appealing for that.
The idea of Han unification doesn't seem right to me. Cyrillic alphabet for example got its own set of codes, even though some letters resemble Latin letters. But, even though those letters look the same, they sometimes sound differently and mean different things.

I suppose somebody came up with this idea back then when they were trying to fit everything into 16 bits.
Exactly. Furthermore, is this company claiming that they can predict electoral college distribution? Because we all well know that Hillary actually won the popular vote. So in fact the popular sentiment was actually on her side.

Any analysis claiming that they could predict Trump's victory without even addressing the disparity between popular vote and electoral college is a fail even before it begins.
They don't. It's a complete PR sham.
> There's a difference between the positive (this thing is like that) and the normative (this should be like that).

Yes and then there's skepticism (doubt as to the truth of something) which is essentially what Postmodernism is.
Not Windows-only anymore. Microsoft is releasing various tools such as SSMS for Linux too.
I was disappointed in the ending. The dutch student had managed to find some empathy for the thief. He seemed to be getting an understanding of how tough it is to live as an immigrant with so much less - in terms of belongings and prospects - than he himself has. But then a brief glimpse of someone that had an "aggressive attitude" and smelled of hash, completely reversed this. It turns out that his prejudice, based on superficial stereotypes, wins after all.
I noticed the establishment v. non-est. behavior as well. How much of this network property is really a predictive signal more than an explanation for "shock" at the results? What are the conditions for it being one or the other?
Another change recently was more fine grained speed limits. You now have speeds for each 10 km/h instead of 20. Some roads had their speed limit raised, like from 90 to 100 km/h. I think it has created a higher sense of fairness, and the limits are respected more as a whole.
> the speed limits are set low, at 30 kmh, or 18.6 mph.

Pet peeve: 30km/h = 20mph. 30.0km/h = 18.6mph. 50km/h = 30mph, not 31mph. It's so annoying when people don't do significant digits correctly when converting between metric and imperial, it completely breaks the flow.
Yes. Windows 7, at 45%, is the most common operating system among Firefox users. Only 26% run Windows 10.

https://metrics.mozilla.com/firefox-hardware-report/#goto-os...
Mark Wagenbuur's videos are spectacular, and they just keep getting better too. I wish every traffic planner and urban politician in the world watched them so they could see where the bar is set.
It used to be, and
You can use cash when the electricity cuts out or the Internet goes down.
Did she?

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/2hu5sb/did_l...
The recording might not be the biggest problem here. I'd say publishing it could get the filmmaker in trouble. But probably only if the thief sues.
I wouldn't lean too hard on empiricism when the main thesis of your comment is an unsupported suspicion.

To repeat, Social Text is not peer reviewed, and it's not a prestigious journal, so it's not surprising that a hoax article got published in it. Similar hoaxes can be perpetrated in any field which has unreviewed journal or conferences, computer science included. Even physics is not immune:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/22/nonsense-pap...
The author doesn't realize that Iron Maiden themselves are quoting "The Prisoner" in their song "The Prisoner."
> The "Dada Engine" just takes real papers and substitutes nouns and pronouns. A similar strategy could probably be used on most any academic paper.

I dare you to do this on e.g. a Physics paper. This doesn't mean badly written Physics papers don't exist, but unless it's an awful paper or you aren't familiar with that field, the statistics and data analysis should stand on it's own. So you always have this fallback. Of course they aren't infallible either, but it's one extra BS detection layer.

For social science, extra BS detection could be had via reference checking. Unfortunately, this is effort and tedious, in part because almost all papers are long-winded and hard to read. So instead, form/style/reputation of cited authors/buzz-words is used. All of these are easy to fake.

I don't know what the solution is. I've seen in Philosophy, students would mark text with logic symbols. Then, you can see a bit more easily if "therefore" really means something follows. Maybe that kind of rigorousness is needed, in an explicit form?

But you're right in that it's mostly laziness, and the random generators don't hold up to too much scrutiny. It's more that it's a mirror, a way of pointing out the shortcomings of the field. Which is why it's funny.
Heh. As a programmer that types a lot, obviously, I find it really annoying when my nails get any length on them at all - especially the index and middle fingers, it feels horrible whenever your nails hit the keys before your actual fingertips.

I tend to keep a second pair of nail scissors at the office, as I can't even bear it until the end of the day (this often happens on a Monday).

Accordingly, I always find it kind of amazing / bizarre to see long nails on any other coworkers / software developer types.
I don't get the feeling that the thief here had all the wonderful opportunities that the student or most readers of HN have. I'm sure he's making the best of a bad situation and making choices that many of us would if we were in his position, given the deterrents or not.
also, if you can pastebin your boot/grub/grub.cfg file that'd be helpful too
The degree of "not invented here" among city officials is astounding. I think a lot of them don't really want to succeed.
Yes - you can add it to a cronjob, as well as add a `--renew-hook` option that tells it to do something post renewal, such as restart your webserver.

See https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html#renewing-certificate...
A "quantum computer" is a very, very broad term.
Avoiding Death by PowerPoint in Product Management
It is not about absolving them, but recognising that people are retarded assholes and there will be human error as long as we have human drivers. So if we want to make driving safer, we must change the traffic environment.
On Firefox, you can flip media.autoplay.enabled = false in about:config, though this may confuse some JavaScript media players that think the video is playing when it's not.
Say I build a camera that has a practically infinite battery and records all the time and streams to Twitch. I keep this camera in my house facing a wall. You steal my camera and put it in your bedroom. It follows from what you're saying that I'm now invading your privacy. That doesn't pass the common sense test for me, sorry.

If that's what the law says, then the law is broken.
My common answer to this is query parallelism. For those of us in the DWH/OLAP space it's a big deal that the F/OSS engines are just starting to tackle, and it's not an easy problem to solve.

I might not mind paying for MSSQL if I also did also not have to pay for Windows.
Do you have a github account with projects that can help get your name out there?
As a VC, the premise of this article makes little sense to me.

1) Investors aren't idiots when it comes to growth. No one expects today's growth rates to stay constant. Growth decelerates over time.

2) You can't take averages of revenue and growth across lots of startups and use that as your model. Here's an example with two startups:

* Startup 1: $4.99m annual revenue, grew 5% last month.

* Startup 2: $10k annual revenue, grew 145% last month.

"Hey look, if you average these growth rates out, you have a combined $5m in annual revenue growing 75% monthly. That'll be >$4b in annualized revenue in a year!!1!"

No, it won't.

The reason investors value high growth in young companies is that growth rates are an okay proxy for a lot of valuable things: product-market fit, execution ability, go to market strategy, etc.
One interesting fact that supports the point of the article is that Matlab is actually using the Fortran code for its implementation of special functions https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/6218-co....

The amount of existing scientific code in Fortran is huge and there's a chicken and egg situation (new code uses/extends old code so new code will also be in Fortran) that will lead to further increasing it!
That was exactly my impression. I don't have a problem with new instructions in new processors being undocumented at first, but purposely undocumented instructions are troubling and would push me away from Intel for new designs.
"Square root of minus one equals = erectile penis"

"We do not understand fluid mechanics as well as rigid mechanics due to sexism, fluids are associated with women, and rigid with men"

"e=mc^2 is a sexed equation, prioritizing the speed of light over other speeds which are very important in our lives"

The first one is from Lacan, and other two from Irigay (they are not exact quotes, my apologies).

As The Economist put it:

"If you ask one of them a question, they draw out enigmatic little expressions from their quiver, so to speak, and shoot one off; and if you try to get hold of an account of what that one meant, you're transfixed by another novel set of metaphors. You'll never get anywhere with any of them."
It's funny that someone has to write an article to defend modern FORTRAN to people who write in JavaScript, which is the best proof we programmers have of entropy.
Korea’s startup scene begins to diversify, reach beyond its own borders
Having done the latter, I would make sure that if you do go that route that you are prepared to partner with your employer(s). I learned the hard way that I wasn't prepared for how much our ideas/motivations would differ. In the end, I burned out and sold them the entire IP.
Technology as a whole isn't pervasive enough across the majority of the population, and they've been burnt so hard by their own currencies that people mistrust any that's not a global standard according to their governmentally controlled world view, like the US dollar is, so crypto has a very, very low chance of catching on.
To be fair, shitty bike lanes mostly appear in the inner city of Stockholm where bikelanes have been retrofitted onto existing roads using only roadmarkings.

Yes, the Dutch way of building bike lanes are superior, but there's also a lot more bikers in the Netherlands, so it's easier to justify spending money on rebuilding roads instead of retrofitting there.
However, previously issued certs are still trusted. For instance, Firefox doesn't complain about this site's WoSign cert: https://www.checkmyping.com/
You can say that objective reality is dubious. But if you use that to subvert claims that survive testing, you're making a positive statement and you need a testable alternative. In any other case, what you're doing is using philosophy to push ideology by discrediting established facts.

I think we should separate "empiricism here is currently difficult" to "absolutely impossible"

Some fields of social science are undergoing internal turmoil (eg. Macroeconomics and some subfields of psychology). This is a good sign; old models are being discarded as new evidence and better methods pop up. In fact, I'm more concerned about sociology, where there wasn't a replication crisis.

Facts are being improved upon when you see crisis in replication. That's a sign of a healthy field of study.

As an econometrics/labor econ grad student, I can tell you I (and most of macro) could answer many questions definitively if we could do things we absolutely should not (eg. Run RCTs on real cities on things like the minimum wage). In microeconomics, we've resorted mainly to look for the effect of exogenous shocks on systems we care about (eg. The Muriel boatlift made a few studies on local unemployment/immigration due to the exogenous shocks nature of the event)
Not at all. The parking spot may earn $10.50 per square foot per month, but the office tower earns $10 or more per square foot per floor per month.
You complain a web proxy can be MITM, but the very same is true about Tor exit nodes. Should EFF therefore not recommend the usage of Tor and/or Tor exit nodes?

You don't use a web proxy to protect your search privacy against a nation state actor; you use it to protect your search privacy against the search engine(s).

Also, if you actually read the link you linked you'd find that 1) it is flagged as 'advanced' which suggests some kind of technical expertise of the user 2) nowhere it is suggested to use someone _else_ their web proxy 3) instead, Privoxy (software; not a service) is suggested because it has privacy enhancing features and 4) anonymizers are suggested. As for anonymizers, that suggestion comes with a fair share of warnings. Basically, in the article EFF recommends Tor.