skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd been following along in C, and I was very surprised to see how similar some solutions were, e.g. as mentioned above[1], drawing a map of the keypad with special characters for edge detection.

I've never finished an Advent of Code though, and I don't think I'd get further in another language than C, I just spend most of my Christmas/December time with family instead of coding; maybe if there was a February of Code I'd participate more actively.

I actually think C is an _ideal_ language for challenges like these: parse a simple input file, do one or two things and write out a number. In fact (with a small number of very big exceptions) my code is usually quite short and concise, even compared to solutions my friends write in higher level languages. I originally picked C, not because I thought I'd be finish blazing fast in it, but because I wanted to learn to use it better (also for work and fun), so with that said, what little code I've written is publicly displayed on GitHub[2] for (as Hungarians say) spitting at. It has some comments and sometimes longish explanations about "design decisions" in the commit messages. I really did end up learning a lot and I am much more fluent in C now than before (no more Google/StackOverflowing every single statement, hooray!), but perhaps the most surprising thing was:

You don't need a Makefile to build `thing` from `thing.c` if you don't need to pass any fancy arguments or anything, you can just write `make thing` without a Makefile and if there's a `thing.c` there it'll run gcc on it and produce your binary!

I'd like to finish these challenges someday. Let's see.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13259460

2: https://github.com/sinisterstuf/adventofcode
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This and because you don't stay in a Sauna for more than a few hours
With regards to standing on the shoulders of giants, the rational part of me wholeheartedly agrees, but the kid in me just wants to burn it all to the ground and rebuild it from scratch. :) Of course, it is nearly impossible to rewrite things better because inevitably you hit one of these traps: not enough time/money, the bureaucracy that is attached to money, the "too many chefs" problem, or the inadequate supply of experienced/battle-hardened minds to put on such a project - i.e. people that have written compilers, operating systems, GUIs, etc - enough times over to know what they are doing.
If you like PKD, I think you'll like Lem. He's very different, but they have some commonalities; they were both great, inventive conceptual thinkers with a superbly dry sense of humour. TFC is a very dry, dark satire.
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http://i.imgur.com/kU4KNX4.mp4

there are other examples where trucks avoided certain deaths for car drivers in that they served left or right. and escaped car or pedestrians.
From the article:

"In a press conference call, FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez said the commission had secured a $17.5 million settlement, but the company will only pay $1.6 million of that amount due to inability to pay."

So, the penalty was cut to 10%, thus yielding a 4-cent-per-customer slap on the wrist.

Hard to take FTC seriously at their mission to protect and inform the general customer. They have no teeth.
Small cash theft can be done over and over. An online theft leaves a paper trail, normally with email confirmation. I would be surprised if a child got away with it twice and the total harm would be much more trackable.
I had this on a Moto X after just over 15 months of use. I think it was only a slightly degraded battery lifetime at that point. Likewise, I'm guessing this has something to do with battery measurement as much as anything else.
Some were arguing yesterday that there'd be a strong negative emotional response when a driver-less car causes someone to die. I hope there will be an equal and opposite reaction when people are saved by this technology.
The performance improvement over
With that kind of vapid nonsensical comment I can tell you're a true expert on at least part of the topic.
Oddly, I fund the promulgation of open science. Too much of cancer research has become regimented and secretive. Experimental data is hard to reproduce or verify and opinions are held as the final truth. Much as the 'cocktails' finally cracked the mortality of AIDS, I believe much of the work for cancer treatment has been done in separate pockets of knowledge.

While this does not directly answer you question, a prize for the heretics would be good. Perhaps Barry Marshal or Robin Warren would run it; they faced massive criticism for their work with H. Pylori before it became mainstream.
I lived through Mario taking over the world and it's really no mystery; the main line Mario games have been universally really solid. The one black sheep, Super Mario Sunshine, is still a solid game it just was too big of a change from Mario 64 for people to handle at the time.

Particularly Super Mario Bros 1, Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World and Super Mario 64 really pushed games forward. Each one of them really opened up new possibilities in games that the rest of the industry was influenced by.

The amazing thing is that Nintendo did that with the Zelda series as well, but this thread is about Mario.
I think the feeling towards this might be cultural too - my tax authority is also the census bureau. They know where I live and how much money I make and have, and that's reported directly from my bank and my employer so I don't have to report this (annual tax declaration is normally just signing that the numbers are correct). All this basically means I never considered any of this to be secret or sensitive - it's even public. There used to be a catalog published with people's income and worth! It's like my phone number!
yeah i try to do that but then other cars just merge in between the space i leave in front of me and force me to be on their tail. meanwhile the guy behind me never leaves enough distance either. safe driving doesn't mean anything when others drive recklessly
Only a one of the things that I and others described would even register in the crime statistics. Playing loud music, acting intimidating toward other passengers, having gang tattoos, stumbling drunk, arguing with the bus driver, are either not crimes or are seldom reported.
Read the article. Taleb mentions them.
> I wonder if we'll ever see a language grouping things in memory by type - who knows, perhaps one of you can steer me in the right direction here.

Maybe head towards databases? Look into Array languages, there might be something useful.
Yeah. The call log and contacts part are a disaster. I'm afraid to touch anything in there for fear it will start a call.
Discrimination is differentiation. When you differentiate fruits in a market, you are a discriminating customer. Illegal employment discrimination is differentiation of employees on a protected category.

Weight <can> have something to do with race, just like IQ tests can have something to do with race, in the lens that they are more likely to affect one racial population than another, and the hiring outcomes they produce may sustain or encourage a disproportionate racial distribution.

So police stations have engaged in an affirmative argument that the use of IQ tests in employment candidacy is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ).
Nuclear power stations are surprisingly boring. It's mostly solid state, relatively quiet and inaccessible (for obvious reasons). I went on a trip to Dungeness (Kent) and it looks like you still can[0] along with 6 others.

For pumped storage there is Dinorwig[1] (North Wales) and Cruachan (West Scotland). If you arrive by public transport you can get a free tour of the Cruachan pumped storage hydro plant.

[0]: https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/education/visitor-centres

[1]: http://www.electricmountain.co.uk/

[2]: http://www.visitcruachan.co.uk/

Edit:

There's a photo at the bottom of this blog post from my visit to Cruachan last summer: https://unop.uk/mobile-gb-rail-live-departure-boards

If you're in the French Alps then you could visit Grand'Maison on a bad weather day: http://www.musee-edf-hydrelec.com/
Thats because you have enough thermal mass and evaporative cooling capacity to withstand those temperatures for a short period of time - ie, very little of your body will experience drastically elevated temperatures for long - if at all. Remember that air (even humid air) is not a super great heat conductor - so while the air might be very hot, it's going to be pretty bad transferring that into your body, which in turn has a lot of mass to distrube heat over, and good conductivity to move heat away from contact areas. And that whole sweat thing works pretty well too (especially in a dry sauna).

Being submerged into a 90 degree water bath will probably rapidly hideously wound you and/or kill you.
Original article [0].

Here's the BBC's analysis of the complaint [1].

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35559439

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/comp-reports/ecu/womenwriteb...
> Are you saying it's an inefficient allocation of resources?

Obviously.
I agree. I've had an Android device since the Nexus One and kind of accepted all this as The Way Things Are, until I received an iPhone SE as a work phone. Not only is the form factor better than any Android device out there (I prefer smaller phones) the software just works so, so much better. I swipe to the camera from the lockscreen and it appears immediately, rather than four seconds later. And it can multitask as well as Android can, for my purposes (wasn't the case when I switched to the N1, of course).

At this point, as much as I like Android, the UI, the open nature, etc. etc., I can't justify sticking with it for the next phone I buy.
Probably not the earliest implementation, but IBM mainframes did indeed have record oriented files in the 1960's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_set_(IBM_mainframe)
> There is NO AUTO PILOT MAGIC IN THIS VIDEO

I think we'd all agree this isn't magic; the point is that it works in spite of the driver. A "competent driver" is going to be especially alert during an exam, but over the course of countless errands and commutes, their guard could be down, their reflexes may suffer due to lack of sleep, etc.

Autopilot doesn't get tired, and never lets its guard down. That's what matters.
But at least if it's a poorly maintained driver the company can blame the driver and not change their practices.
Agree. Serving the right size is as important.
When my Nexus 6 shuts down at 25%, I can turn it back on, and it still shows 23% after that. And it does seem to be temperature dependent. So I think it has to do with battery monitoring.
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I stopped when seeing that the 3rd canadian camera on the list was in someone's living room. I dont want my ip showing up on thier router's logs when they contact police after noticing all the traffic. I really hope they dont have kids in front of that camera.

An open door is not an invitation to trespass, especially when it has obviously been left open in error.
My 2+ years old Note 4 is running fine. It needs a new battery, but the core OS experience has improved from the various updates over the years.

My iPad Air on the other hand has severly dimished usability from the various iOS updates. Orientation change no longer works reliably. The idiotic change from swipe to unlock via double tap of home tremedously increased the frustration in UX (Try a double tap while the tablet is barely upright via Apple's magnetic cover.)
Fantasic work Evan You! Vue is exactly what I've missed in the js world. I cant explain it well, but I never could stand Angular or React. Look forward to using Vue alot in 2017
Clearly TempleOS/HolyC is the answer we've been looking for.

http://www.templeos.org
Saving any lives in great, but trucks are a very small part of the problem.

Out of 33883 US traffic deaths in 2009, 3380 involved trucks, and truck driver error was listed as a cause 26% of the time.

Self driving long-haul trucks probably won't save "thousands" of lives, but certainly hundreds.

http://www.trucking.org/ATA%20Docs/News%20and%20Information/...
I'd be shocked if more than 5% (and even that's a stretch) of fresh high school graduates in the US knew what a Markov chain is.
Sure, there is sometimes a hormonal component, ask any woman on birth control about that. But mostly it's about overeating garbage food which harms the bodies natural ability to handle insulin and glucose.

Also, dietary guidelines for caloric intake are far too high for a modern sedentary lifestyle. There was actually a study about this recently discussed here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/26/meals-parents-mad...

And yes very rarely there may be some underlying condition. But that is indeed rare. Keep in mind obesity was practically nonexistent 40 and 50 years ago.
> instead of just icons, perhaps it could show 'box covers' or 'banners' or the first few words of the text as a generated picture, etc

Dolphin does that. The Windows explorer tries to do that as well, but in a much more limited fashion.

Dividing metadata (with the respective privacy issues) and versioning large files are incredibly hard problems. And not the kind of "hard" that a genius in academy writes a paper and it's solved, but the kind where no two people want things to behave the same way, and getting into an usable shared set of assumptions may be even impossible.
Yet another featured copied from Apple...
Rust is more than safety
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Makes sense. Pulling the nutrients out of a rodent carcass would take considerably more effort and paw eye coordination than just eating kibble from a bowl.

I was more focused on the "foraging" concept with regard to cats. I don't think cats forage.
Have you tried clearing the cache from the debug screen? I had a similar problem with my old Nexus 5 that got fixed by doing that.
There won't be.
Around here they recommend 2s. As part of a science fair project, I measured the following distance of cars on a nearby highway. It's been about 15 years but IIRC, the mode was ~0.5s.
This is the output of part 1 in a tutorial series, which is here: https://unop.uk/building-a-web-app-in-react-and-asp-net-core...
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/sometimes-people-jus...
Sanation: a populist political movement for "moral sanation (healing) of the Polish body politic". It's nationalistic, anti-democratic, authoritarian and was gagging/killing/imprisoning the opposition.
Designing robots with bugs?
(Shameless plug)

CleverPet Hubs work with cats, too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzXwrXEkmHM

Also, there have been rumors that the Hubs will be user-hackable in short order. And they use Particle Photons in any case ...
Super Mario Sunshine holds up pretty well. I still really enjoy going back to it today. Even more than Mario 64 (although that's still a great game too). The controls were a lot tighter than Super Mario Galaxy, I feel, because it didn't use any motion controls.
I remember thinking this as the obvious answer as well, but then reading a few forum threads discussing that these already exist but were not reliable enough to rely on.

That was some time ago, I wonder if the situation has changed any.
You comment describes exactly why this is so amazing - the autopilot executes the same as a competent driver! It's magic because it's the first time in human history that we've had such skills available in a car autopilot.

It's like saying cruise-control is worthless because any competent driver can maintain their speed - you're missing the point.

We're achieving parity between autopilots and human drivers, except the autopilot will never be distracted or tired, and always operates with the skill of a competent driver (and many drivers are not competent).
They do keep credit cards in their wallet, though.
You have a point, but you have to also consider the fact that it is hypocritical to say that we are "Screwing the planet".
If others were screwing it to build their economy, other countries also should have that ability.
Countries that have more money can afford other forms of energy, but coal is abundant in Poland and it would be foolish not to use it.

For solar power, Poland doesn't have good geographical position, similar with wind (it is only in the northern part, while the majority of population is in the south).
And hydro is not that environment friendly, but we have those in the south, but it is hard to make more because there is a limit on the amount of water and Poland has less of it than e.g. Egypt.

The only other option is nuclear, but as others have written it is not popular in the public.
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https://www.twitch.tv/602race

info: http://bombch.us/giU

(yes, speedrunners have their own, zelda themed url shortener.)
Very impressive demo. I guess this is possible due to great sensors (radar/lidar), computing power (tesla has the most computing power in a car) and good trained deep nets and algorithms (again tesla,cruise & waymo have the biggest investment here)

Does anyone know how I can get my hands on a nvidia drive PX2 board and a quanergy lidar? It seems the lidars and such nvidia boards are only sold in huge quantities to auto makers and not as single units available for people to make their own robots.
Interesting. It seems to be based on Microsoft's "Drawbridge" research project:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/

I wonder if there's any chance they'd allow this mechanism to be used by 3rd parties to port their Windows services to run on non-Windows platforms. I doubt it...
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What are the right disability rules for robotaxis?
The background is probably this email thread: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg21278.h...

Previous discussion of that email thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12641880

Basically, someone noticed (too late) that TLS 1.3 no longer has the RSA key exchange, which they liked because it allowed decryption of the encrypted traffic by passive middleboxes (which have a copy of the RSA private key). This draft is probably a response to that.
(I might be totally misunderstanding where you are coming from, but...)

Question for you: What do you want to implement from such papers, and what do you expect to gain from doing so?

They describe on the one hand small-but-important details and on the other large-scale overviews over really complex systems. The small details are presented precisely enough so that you probably could code them relatively directly, but they aren't necessarily immediately useful. E.g. in the Gorilla paper you probably could implement their compression algorithms from what they've written there. Is that useful to you? Do you have a problem where you can apply that implementation?

The high-level overviews are interesting if you plan on writing an entire similar system, or to understand pain points in an existing one you have, but there of course is a lot of engineering and knowledge involved that is not in the paper.

I'd say papers that do not present a specific algorithm with in- and outputs you can easily deal with using what you have are not good candidates to just go from paper to implementation, and even then the paper without further context often doesn't give you all you need to do so.
This is good advice.

I remember getting physical results for SSCE and NECO exams and I would gladly have paid the $2.

I'll also add that the startups in the US/Europe can provide sample problem/solution combinations for you. You won't be able to just clone ideas, but you'll be able to evolve them for your local market.

Good luck.

PS. It makes me happy to meet fellow Nigerian engineers. I don't meet many in my day to day.
I'm all for making system calls and IPC cheaper. I'm also all for making system calls indistinguishable from IPC for all practical purposes. I'm in support of those ideas even if one does not take them to their logical destination at a microkernel.

But I just don't think filesystems should be as powerful as databases. At a minimum, no computer exists alone, and sharing database structures is a much more complex action than sharing opinionated byte streams.
I agree with all of your points, I just wonder (hypothetically) if things could be improved, or are we at the peak already? I think certain things, like the web browser, could be made much better if we rethought it and simplified it. Of course, we are fighting a huge battle against legacy, but big things have been killed in the past (see Flash)
Amen. But it may go a little deeper. One could argue that The Pentagon Papers leak advanced the agenda of a DC faction, namely the anti-Nixon crowd. I say this knowing most of the documents Ellsberg leaked came from the Johnson or maybe even Kennedy administrations. It doesn't matter, as people will conflate actions of various administration, especially when such conflation has a political use.

Snowden's leaks advanced the agenda of a faction generously described as the tinfoil hat brigade, and no one else. Which may explain the umbrage taken by Mr. Gladwell.

Both parties want Gitmo - probably to deal with future enemies, not current ones.

Both parties want the NSA for the same reason.

After all, it was none other than Hillary Clinton who said just a few weeks ago that her greatest enemy was not the Russians or even the NRA, but Republicans.
I think its bad, but its up for consideration.
Fact. It will be. The way the market is moving, Apple/Microsoft - benefit best if they can move all users in a tide of upgrades - We are being conditioned - to accept software as a service - and even Operating Systems as a service. To do it, you have to be able to control the update/install cycle on the machine. We're close. When we are completely tethered, then on the heels of a Whiz Bang introduction, we will be told that all machines 'can only' (a nice way of saying must) - run an os issued today. Once we've gotten accustomed to that. Then we will be given the option to subscribe (pay) to the operating system, or have our devices no longer work.

The 'all' update - has to be a part of this process - similar events are happening with Win10 - its not mandatory, but it's very passive aggressive forceful. Why? the next business milestone depends on being able to move the customers to the next OS. (and then the next).
This is a re-work of my original project (Postacard.io). It introduces statistical NLP for address parsing, as well as a Facebook Messenger bot for better international functionality.
Ben Cruachan is great and free if you come by train. The walk up to the top is good on a nice day but not easy. I went in the summer and there's a photo at the bottom of this blog post: https://unop.uk/mobile-gb-rail-live-departure-boards/
This looks really good, and an interesting wag to describe the landscape. Is it just my phone or are the links completely broken on phones?
I don't recall the game being "modest looking" at the time. I remember being impressed with the greatly improved graphics and all of the beautiful colors. You have to consider Super Mario World as a predecessor to Super Mario Brothers 3. Perhaps removed from its historical context, it may look modest, but I was blown away at the time.
I'm surprised to see this is the only comment mentioning leaving a bowl of food out 24/7. This is how it's done at every shelter I have volunteered at (and how I do it at home) - the cats should always have access to water and some form of food. The wet (canned) food is what you have to be more careful with because the cats will compete for it.